What would you do if you were asked to control a large crowd of people that was all riled up about something? In order to be good at crowd management you need to have three things. You need to have a plan, you need to have knowledge about crowd psychology and you need to have the right tools. With these three things in place, you can control any crowd.

The plan that you come up with for controlling a crowd will be based on the specifics of the other two things. That means you should start by learning a little bit about crowd psychology. What calms a crowd down and what makes them get even more excited? A basic training class in this can do you a lot of good.

Once you have that down, you’re going to need the right tools for controlling a crowd. The type of equipment that you’ll need will vary depending on the size of the crowd. For example, you would want steel barricades instead of plastic barricades when dealing with a very large crowd. In general, what you’re looking for is barriers to corral the crowd into one safe location. You’ll also want to get a big loudspeaker so you can talk to the crowd and implement the plan that you’ve designed!

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